IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHO I AM

Don't you hear the Eleazar call? It's

going to end our joyless

camp.

There is a monitor back in the nursery. Anyone with little children has to go out. You won't be missing anything. There is a monitor back there. Upstairs also we've got some and quite a few people there that upstairs try to help with the little children up there. Bill, you're out of the service, but you're not out of the service by being upstairs. So help watch the little children, if you would. Help all those around you. Let's turn over 175 in the Behold book.

175, see that little chorus? He gave me beauty for ashes and a oil of joy for mourning.

175 in the Behold book.

Some of you

are not familiar with this little chorus, but there are a few words that... Some of the books may not have written in there at the very last. It'll say, you are my king and my God. And if it's not written in there, that's what the very last verse is. And also the word tabernacle will be changed back to what the title says, the dwelling places. I think you'll pick this up, though. 180, how lovely are thy dwelling places.

Why does anybody want something that's not real, not reality? Truly, that word is here, a reality unto us. Let's turn to 206 in our Hymns of Glorious Praise songbook.

206. A

thing that is familiar to us all. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. Amazing grace. A

few seconds are going to

tone down where I think this

is supposed to be. But it's certainly pretty to me. See all you folk, and though I don't see the ones upstairs, I imagine they're sort of looking down at us, which is their privilege. And

it's also a privilege when you're gone, you can look up through

the ceiling up there, but if we had a monitor, we'd be able to see them also. So we're all one tonight, and rejoice in the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I want to bring a message tonight. It's entitled, We Had Only Known Who He Was. Quite certain you're aware that I got my subject from something Brother Branham said. on more than one occasion when he made the remark, if you only know, do who I am. I think he used the words actually saying, if you only knew who I was, but I'm changing it to a little better and sound structure grammatically. If you only knew who I am, you'd all be healed. Now evidently people did not actually know who he was to the point where all would be healed, for it did not happen. And

Brother Branham came on the scene and he said, if you only knew who I am, you would all be healed. Remember Jesus. could not do many mighty works because of unbelief and the unbelief was actually concerning his own person as you well know they could not contest the miracles that is the record right all right now the closest they came uh was uh under a gifted heat where that is where they're all healed which i told you many times happened back in 1947 in canada and uh brother branham had said at that time he said now All of you who have prayer cards, you vote, because he said usually 60 % get healed when they go through the prayer line. But he said if you prefer otherwise, and I'm quite sure he said I'll take 24, 25 of the worst cases, and I'll guarantee healing for all. Well, of course, nobody took up the challenge. The result that we never saw the 25 miracles. But as God is my judge and my memory is faulty, I saw nearly hundreds of people go through the line, and there wasn't one person who wasn't healed. So, therefore, we did have a parallel there. But that's the closest it ever came to anything, in my knowledge, where the people were healed almost en masse, though one by one. Now, the great meetings in Durban, to my knowledge, are 30 ,000 healed at one time. They had prayer line there. But, again, there is no record of a mass healing. And yet the prophet categorically said, if you only knew who I am, you would all be healed. And, of course, you say, well, maybe that would be one at a time. strung out that could be well true but he was speaking to an audience and everyone present was able to receive that so there could have been mass healing all right the fact of the matter is true also that except for a gift to him and his ability to bring faith to the people there were very few that have been healed in brother brandon's ministry and i speak again concerning that which i'm aware of where he could go to a place where perhaps there was a he had a convocation due to the pastors of the area bringing him into their assemblies And they may bring in a whole school of deaf and dumb, and maybe 30, 40, 50, 60, and every single one healed. This was done not because of the pastor's faith or the people's. This was done because of a gift to heal. And you notice that Brother Branham, when he would pray for the sick back and those, and always you see on television where someone prayed for the deaf, they go, you know, snap. I

saw him in the prayer line. He would just say, and

he said, I just named him. He said, he did

a jury in Jesus' name. He didn't come up. It was like the man became a judge. See,

so they took that. gift to healing and i want to show you that that that lay there the

evidence was there that when he said if you only knew he was not just giving them something that was an enticement but was very legitimate and uh we go actually a step further and we say this except for the sovereignty of god in this man's ministry which was demonstrated in thus set forward we would have seen even far less healed Because thus said the Lord had nothing to do with the person as to his faith, as to his compatibility, his walk, as to anything. It was sovereign, which nothing could possibly stop that from happening. Now, I realize that people would stand up and say, well, look, this must be and that must be. That's wonderful. You have all your must be's, all you want to

do with the person as though he had anything to do with it to get it. It was a sovereign act of God.

whatever and maybe and you think

for one minute that anything with the person intrinsically you are yes even

discernment had nothing to do people come to me act

out of the audience he

just we have even seen less healed if it hadn't been for that manifestation under sovereignty so the world and the church and the bride missed the glory of mass healings or tremendous individual healings which were massive healings they missed the glory of it because they not only did not know and did not bother to actually find out exactly who he was. Evidently, the ears had been pierced in the year of Jubilee, so they could be in bondage, slavery, under dominion, of not what this man stood for, but what something else in their lives they were standing for. Or perhaps the ears had been completely plucked. Spiritual ears had been completely defiled by a doctrine which was contrary. At least we know this, that everybody at the time of the prophet, when he made that statement, everybody was marching to the tune of a different drummer. It is not that they did not care for healing, they wanted healing. It is that they missed the key. Now listen carefully. It is that they missed the key that would have given them the faith and right to heal. Brother

Bill, I believe in healing and atonement. I never said I wasn't. I

believe it's this. I never said I wasn't. I said they missed a key and we know, and I for one know above all of you, and all of you put together, I'm not boasting now.

in many hours. You

saw many, many, many, many. And

that statement has been in my mind for a long time. The only you who I actually am. And that was the key whether you would want it or not. That was the key to liberate you. Whether it set your faith on fire or gave you the faith you did not have, I do not know. I'm not a prophet and I'm not privy to these things. All I know is that this is the truth. Now listen, their interest, that is the church and the bride, their thirst, their faith attitudes, their search of the scripture. their zeal. All of this was aimed at healing when it should have been aimed at the answer to the question, who is this man with so great and wonderful ministry? Let

this sink in. Because you see, you're thinking otherwise. You're back in your old dead traditions. You're back in your denominations. You're back in your own thinking. We

say, I brought the ground and said a lot of things like Psalms. That's fine. That's very good. So you're telling me... That what you know that he said in other places annulled this, and so therefore he's categorically a fool.

Why would you quote the rest if he was so stupid to quote this? If

I was spiritually imbecilic in one place, I would hardly qualify to be spiritually sound in another place. The scripture said he had not given us a spirit of fear, but of love and courage and a sound. He

said if you only knew, you'd all be healed. So

something was above and beyond for

the bride to possess, or needed to possess, a lady in one little... statement, which in itself, though small, the content was tremendously something

like the power that lies in the atom. If they were to split, it would almost destroy the universe. Who is this man with

this so great and wonderful ministry? Had they found that answer according to the man who was sent from God, they would have gained their ultimate desire, knowing who he was, would have brought what they wanted. It reminds us of the scripture where Jesus said, seek you first the kingdom of God and all things should be added unto you. And I submit to you tonight that this generation is going to find itself in deep problems, even as they are now. And they should become greater because they turned aside the simple little formula that Brother Branham brought to your attention. If you only knew. I didn't say you cannot know.

You're letting them know that they could know exactly who he was. Now, today, as always, we are very critical of Israel because they missed both John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ. And

we are well aware of the judgment that followed. But

still, we always want to feel surprised that Israel could miss something so clear, so evident, that we see so clearly. Let

this soak in.

Hindsight is not just 20 -20. It is everything. But, unfortunately, it is nothing.

Anybody can tell what Monday was like on Tuesday morning. Did it rain or didn't it? We

are well aware of the judgment that followed when Israel missed John and Jesus. I wonder if we are aware, because

a certain great man who brought Pentecost into ecumenicity and mixed up this latter -day following of God with Rome and made her a filthy prostitute,

he scoffed and scorned in his death. And sneeringly said, Judgment came upon the man who judged. But

Joal was always tackled the same, Bernard. Israel

missed John and Jesus. I wonder if they weren't more alert to their hour of judgment than we are to ours. Scripture bears this out. I know it does. But we wouldn't be too prone to agree with it. And I'm going to read in Matthew 12, 22, 23. They brought unto him one possessed with the devil, blind and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch as the blind and dumb both speak and saw, and all the people remained. Is not this the Son of David? They were asking questions. They were looking for the Son of David. We are supposed to be looking for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Wasn't there something in our day to excite us to that end, to make us wonder? Well, someone would say, I don't think I know any scripture for it. But you notice that Israel was alert. Israel wanted to know. furthermore, we go to John 1. That was concerning Jesus. Let's take a look at John 19 -25. This is a record of John when the priests and Levites from Jerusalem asked him, Who art thou? See, they came and they said, Who are you? And

he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. He's

literally only typing the Elijah of this hour, one to come. because though he was the messenger that foreman the Lord Jesus Christ emphasis is upon the bird so

truly he was alive you notice he said no I am NOT Elijah per se but he had to know that he was in the spirit of Elijah because his own father knew it and John in the desert would have to know that not aren't you are you that prophet he said no that prophet of course would be Christ then they said who are you that we may give an answer to them that sent us what do you say of yourself He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. Now he said, I'm not Elijah per se, I'm not Jeremiah, I'm not Isaiah. But he said, I'm a portion of the scripture, I'm identified therein, and I'm that one of whom it is spoken in Isaiah.

I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. And they which were sent of the Pharisees, they asked him and said, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not Christ, nor Elijah, nor that prophet? Now they had in mind another prophet other than Christ. And John answered and said, I have been indeed baptized with water, and so on. Now notice in John 4 -25, And

I said, Therefore unto you that you shall die in your sins, for you believe not that I am. Now the word he is interpolated there, it's interjected, interpolated. It's not in there, I am. You don't believe that I am, which is Jehovah. You shall die in your sins. Then they said unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus said, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. Now you notice in there that they were alert to the fact that they should question these two men who stood before them. Now there are two things I want us to notice. One, they were anxious to know the mystery of Messiah. And if it were possible, that their generation would be the generation to receive that Messiah. Now they wanted to know that. They wanted to know about Messiah. They wanted to understand. They wanted to know if they were in the generation to receive it. Now first you notice that I mentioned mystery. I use mystery. I should perhaps use the word mysterious more than mystery. Because there was much said about Messiah on most sides of the page. To the extent that one was referring to his first coming and one to his second. And there is much more referring to the second than to the first. And the first coming is veiled in mystery wherein he was a dying lamb to die as the atonement for the people and that could not set with the people because how could he die as a sacrifice or one that was sacrificed and still be the one who would rule and reign? They couldn't understand it. Then I mentioned their generation. You see, they were alert to see if it was their hour. And every generation through every church age has actually looked for our Messiah to come also, even as Israel did. They went through seven church ages also, all those ages. But this generation was alert to it. We're not seeing much evidence that anybody in our generation was alert to anything. They only knew that something lay out there somewhere, but they could not place it, nor it seemed were they too anxious to place it, nor were they willing to question anything which might... possibly be categorized as any type of authority or insight or the ability to gain an insight as to the very hour in which we live. Now, the second thing I want us to notice is they went right to John, and then they went right to Jesus, and they asked outright, Who are you? Are you the Messiah? Tell us plainly exactly what is so. But you notice this generation has not done so. We have not done it. Now, according to Matthew 12, and we won't read it, Christ has to appear to the Gentiles. And this has been a completely hidden mystery wherein the theologian has said, well, this is the Holy Spirit on earth today. This is what came back as the proxy or the vicar of the Lord Jesus Christ. He came back as the Holy Spirit. It's been a hidden mystery with misinterpretation and misplacement. B, according to Luke 17 and 30, the Son of Man must be revealed again. But again, the theologian... has shaken their heads and said, well, you see, it could be a misplacement. What it is, sometimes the Bible does not run in continuity. It could be that those that copied the Word were not too careful, and something's a bit out of cater. We've got to get better manuscripts and understand more, and perhaps we will get to the root of this. But for them to realize it was Son of God, Son of Man, Son of David, there's no way to understand that. And you won't find that in any book of theology. Now, Brother Ungren, if he were here, he'd have to attest to that. He's been through far more books of theology than I have. And there isn't anybody who found that one. And they haven't done it. Paul, number three. According to Matthew 17 and Acts 3. And, of course, in Matthew 17, that's where Jesus said, John, I mean, Elijah must truly come and restore all things. And John was already an Elijah for his hour, which Jesus affirmed. And we know to be true. But he said there's also to be a restoration because Elijah would restore. And you'll find that over in Acts, the third chapter. And we read it many, many times. It's one of my favorite portions, where it says, When times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, even He, that's God, shall send Jesus, which was appointed unto you, whom the heavens must retain until the restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began. And we know categorically there that there is no such thing as anybody taking this restoration to its conclusion except Elijah. Elijah has to. come and restore. But again, these scriptures have been misplaced. And you'll find people right today say, well, look, this business of Elijah coming is nonsense. He has already come. That was fulfilled. How can they be so gross? You know, positively, there must be a burning. They simply bypassed one for the other. Even Scofield was not that grossly ignorant. For, according to Malachi, Elijah and Jehovah, that's both in the form of the Spirit, because Elijah will not come back, literally. It's going to be the Spirit of Elijah, because remember, the Spirit of Elijah came. upon Elijah and if the scripture says he shall go in the spirit and power of Elijah will absolutely that John the Baptist so the third time coming is going to be which was in John's going to be in the spirit the fourth time to be spirit again and the fifth time could be the person himself well that is something the Prophet did not already did settle for us all right according to Malachi we know that Elijah and Jehovah the Satan the spirit of both is to come back to get a bride ready to get her out of here And, of course, we said this had been misplaced by the people. Now, I know that you know exactly, or should know exactly, what I'm trying to get at. And that is that Israel was alert in her hour of judgment. What? Should we have not been also alert and thereby bypassed the judgment of God? Or because we were not alert and we did not rise to the question, will we also be judged? What delegation of one person out of one denomination? Here we came to Brother Branham and asked him, who are you? Are you Elijah? And is this the hour of the return of Jesus? What are you all about anyway? He even called him a man sent from God. And one great servant of God said at a eulogy, we saw Christ live again when we saw William Brannan. Yet he did not come. Or did anybody come and officially ask, who are you? Place yourself in this great ministry. What is going on? So the prophet had to prompt us. He tried to inspire us to act. He knew how much sickness was in the world and how great it would be to get us free from sickness. And you notice, that's absolutely true. William Branham always played up healing. He always prayed. He said, let there not be one sick person amongst us. Always look forward to you being helped. He said, my ministry is to come and pray for the sick. He wanted us free from sickness, even cancer. So he dangled the loaded question under our noses. Do you want to all be healed? You do? Then ask me, who am I? Now I said, that's a loaded question. Who am I? For was Brother Branham referring to himself or was the Holy Spirit speaking? through Brother Branham. Now the answer is we don't know positively, or we could say we don't. But when the people came to John, he said, I am not the Messiah. So it seems very apparent that the question was concerning himself, that is John the Baptist, it was. And the question would be concerning William Branham. Who exactly is William Branham? And he would have told us the same as John the Baptist. I am not Jesus the Christ, but I am thus, and I am so. And instead of the people coming and asking the prophet, who are you? They just sat back and listened and watched that they might catch something. But you see, there was danger in mishearing. Because the longer you sat back and didn't go right to William Branham, the more your own imagination would come into play, and the more the thoughts of other people and denominational understanding would bear upon you, and then you'd be in great danger of turning down the man that you should. have come to you and said, who are you? And like Jesus, he began to reveal his ministry and purpose of being. And their eyes glinted and they said, because when he preached about himself and who he was, he thinks he's Elijah the prophet.

That did it right there. You know why? Because there's a record of Elijah the prophet, even in America, through a man like Dowie. They came to Dowie one day and they said, you have got to be Elijah. And he said, I was horrified, angry, and I scattered them from my presence. But he said, the longer I thought about it, he said, you know, the more I've been to realize that he was not Elijah the prophet.

Now people get afraid of Elijah because there have been so many misnomers, there have been so many mishaps, there have been so many foolish things done like Elijah's garments, Elijah's company, Elijah this, Elijah that. But that does not all be the truth that Elijah must come because the Bible says so. So they said he thinks he's Elijah the prophet. And there are no prophets. And especially, there is none to the Gentiles. There is no Gentile prophet. Try to find this one. Now that's a little ridiculous.

use Hebrews 1 1 I tell you this this is the most amazing thing in the world to show the gross ignorance of mankind in this hour of what they think is this fantastic enlightenment that they have by way of their great educational systems especially in the theological seminaries where you have all manner of tremendous input of the cultures and the great literature all the fine things of light so that when you use the Word of God you may be the most meticulous and blessed person in using the Holy Scripture, but here's as far as they've come. God, who at sundry times and divers manners, spake in time past, unto the fathers, in the prophets, happened these last days, spoken unto us, in the Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he made the world. And they say, that's it, there's no prophets. They don't even know that he was a prophet. They skim over that so lightly as I've shown you in many messages, be absolutely pitiful.

No, they said, there is no such thing, especially a Gentile. And Hebrews proves it. Others say he thinks he is Jesus Christ. And they lay trap for him how to destroy his standing with the people and put his doctors to confusion. But they would not come and ask exactly who are you in the Bible if you're in the Bible. What are you all about? Where do you fit in? What is going on? I have made only listen and asked him, who are you that we all might be healed?

How could they believe it? It's too strange. Two poor

persons say, well, you can have right if you just press that button on the wall. It doesn't

seem to learn. That is what he should learn. But if you don't listen and ask him, who are you? That we might be healed. Israel came and said, they came to Jesus and said, well, what about this bread? How can we get it? They said, who are you? Israel was very alert to what we are. Do you understand what I'm saying? Gross darkness shall cover the people. People don't want to believe they're in gross darkness.

They don't want to pull the curtain and say, hey, this age gets burned. Now, I'm not as rough as people think I am.

Pentecost

has been the cream of the crop and the thing that was to the original seed that went in the ground. I agree with Brother Brannon. Do

you realize something, Brother Cicero? The chap which is Pentecost gets burned. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm not a monster to say that. You're not monsters to listen. Do you understand? That's the Word of God. It's got nothing to do with you and me. So

denude your minds of your stupidity. You've

been asking for years, Oh God, let the Holy Ghost burn out the dross. Burn out that dross.

nomination across the

ability to hear the true Word of God because there's another seat standing there where

do you fit in what's going on we want to know because we want to be healed now then I'll tell you something right now the word healing actually former

restoration former reconciliation and restoration this world is so abusive and the bride was so far gone that God had to institute a form arrest reconciliation and restitution and restoration rather

and healing

is where members of the body are reconciled and functional to each other so that under an intelligence they move beautifully in harmony and that's what we're looking at so you see it becomes a great title but because of unbelief in his statement and not perhaps unbelief so much as the complete overlooking it

missing it not hearing it at all what would have been the great proof of his ministry and the great blessings of almighty God upon the people very

simple remember

name him wanted healing one time.

The prophet Elisha in trouble. She had said, well, if you were just back there in Israel, she said, then under my king, your king's a pretty good old boy. He's a pretty powerful old fellow. He's a great general. But she said, man, you ain't got no one compared to us. Because our king's got a prophet. He'd just strike that leper and see wham, bam. Naaman at that point was, he

needed to tell him the issue. Why? She said, no doubt. He said, I think I better go see him.

Well, don't you know, Naaman went there and Elisha wouldn't even come to the door. He said, well, hey, just tell the fellow to dip seven times for his work.

Abandoned Farfrae. He said, they're beautiful, clear. He said, why didn't you tell me to do some big thing?

Something, why, worthy of my dignity. He

said, Master Holt, there's a simple guy alongside of a complex guy. He said, look, he said, if he'd have told you some big thing to do, then why not do this simple thing?

Everybody came to get their faith built up. A big thing here, a great thing there, a great something, a great something. And the prophet said, if you just do,

why don't you come and ask me who I am, and I will tell you, and you will get this great

symbol. the great proof of the resurrection, the great sign of the resurrection is what it is, and they'd have seen it, and it would have blown their minds, and in blowing their minds, it would have killed their doubts, their unbelief, and their foolish dogmas and tenets and creeds, which are an abomination, because

that's what he wanted to get to, to get to the understanding of anything, unless you go to that thing and find out from that thing itself. In other words, you do not know all about a cow by studying a horse.

How would we know anything and get that which is pertinent to the prophet, where the Bible says a friend of the prophet receives the prophet's reward? Now, he laid it right out here very clearly. He said, look, he said, now that a while ago I mentioned the mystery that attended the doctrine of Messiah, which in plain English means that there is a mystery concerning that doctrine. One school said it's this. One school said it's that. Another school said it's something else. and they're still doing the same thing in Israel. No one really knew the truth, no one understood. As I mentioned, there's two comings, the first and second, and that got them all confused. It was like the seals were for us. They were probed at and guessed at, but no one knew for sure. You see, when you put a seal on a book, what you're doing, you're covering up part of the writing. And then you can see part of the writing, and you guess what you don't see. Now then, if you just guess the whole drawing, because it's not a guessing game. But that's what we did in the seals. Now there weren't seals on them per se so that you couldn't read the Bible. The seal was on the revelation because there's a time element involved. See? So they could not know at that hour. Alright, so like the seals to us, the Messiah doctrine was a mystery. Probed that and guessed, but no one knew for sure.

Denominations had their own interpretations of it all. And they plugged the loopholes by their traditions. And by their guesswork, because that's what it was. But they weren't so sure that they dared not ask. Now, that's Israel. They weren't so sure. Now,

in our day, just as in Jesus' day, they would not come and ask. They

do it in this day when he's here in the Holy Spirit. Now, in Jesus' case and in John's case, they showed their wisdom by coming to them. For they knew in themselves this thought that who knows better about himself. than the man with the ministry. Do you really want to know? You better ask him. Certainly John should know who he was. Jesus should know who he was. And they didn't know who they were. And they told him. And only the election got it. Nobody else got it. So they at least asked, but could not accept the answers because of traditions that they had for their doctrines. So, how far is our Christianity gone when we couldn't even ask? And we never did. But the point is this. Who should know better who he is than the person himself? So John told them who he was. In the notice, it was scriptural. He took them right to the script. Jesus said who he was, and he gave them the law and the prophets. And he proved he was their Messiah and challenged them to prove by the same word that he was not when he said that he was. And just as surely, William Branham said who he was and quoted the word. And that's the main thrust of this message tonight, which I'm getting to. What William Branham said about himself. He told us who he was and what he was and what he told us was so far from our understanding of scripture that we could not place the description of himself with the Bible. Now some of the things he brought out we felt were perhaps acceptable until the actual definition was presented to us according to his own understanding and interpretation. then that acceptation or acceptation collapses. Now, there's not one person who hasn't gone through that. Very fortunately, the estimation, if it is correct, and it will be when the election begins to understand who he was, that does not collapse. It gets very sticky at times and very steamy because the mind becomes inflamed because it's already got too much in there now that doesn't belong in the Word. And if the Spirit of God is going to burn up the dross, it's going to burn up that misword in there. And that's going to cause friction. It's going to cause steam. It's going to be a convagration. You'll get steamed up, don't worry. But if you're a child of God, you'll simmer right down, and

you say, I can take that. I'm not leading up to night to see everybody here. I'm just yet

expecting beyond what the message is going into.

Now, to get what I mean, we take the first and obvious thing he said about himself, an office that people knew that he absolutely had to possess. Number one, he was a prophet. That he was a prophet is so evident that to deny it was the mark of gross spiritual ignorance. His enemies called him a false prophet, of course, but they at least recognized an office. And he let them call him a prophet, but

he himself spoke of himself as being a seer, which is a seer, S -W -E -R, a man with visions who could tell the future. What he said future -wise never failed. It always came to pass. People loved his dust. said the Lord. To them it was icing on the cake, for here was now a prophet who was a prophet of a very special kind. He could do a super job, not like others with the Gethsemane or even ministers. This man was extra super. He had thus said the Lord. Other men said they did. But this man could trot it right out open, and it came right to pass. Remember that time he was in Phoenix? I think it was Brother Shaqiri and his sister was in England. I forgot to die.

And he said she'd be dead in the morning. And the convention got all steamed up Pentecost -wise, so they thought, like the prophets of male, I will not take that back. They could dance and shout and scream, do this and do that, and the other thing, and she would not die. So somebody said, thus said the Lord, she will not die but live. So they said to Brother Brannon, Billy Paul said, Daddy, what about it? He said, all I know. He said she would die. Watch the clock. Two o 'clock in the morning she was dead. I want to ask you a question. How come that convocation, they're going to apologize. How come the man was not put in the store? They're willing to believe that. Oh, they want to be dead. See, they wanted what lay there to deliver the girl, but they wouldn't say who. Why

wouldn't they say who are you? Because they didn't want to find out.

Come on, let's be honest. I'm not stupid. There

are lots of things I didn't want to know. Today, right now, I don't want to know.

You're sitting here and telling me that you're a 10 -step enemy. You could well be, but I was just laughing.

Not that I'm ahead of anybody. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, come on, hey, you're all down here at the chickens. You're eagles, but you're just potential in the sense you haven't got out of here yet. You

didn't get out of here one of these days. Oh, yes, he was a special kind of a prophet. He liked that. How to get thus saith the Lord? Because faith or no faith, life or no life, they received what the prophet said would happen. He ate it up. I sat there wanting thus saith the Lord, too.

Number two, on top of being your prophet, you have to give to him. That operates actually without your faith, though the faith of the people can bring it into action. The last time I know that took place is back about 1950, seen in Lima, Ohio, when I had Brother Branham in there in the Allen County Memorial Auditorium. And the gift union went into operation that Friday night in 50 miracles in 50 minutes. And I don't know if they ever operated again. It was the faith of the people in prayer and believing. But it was not the prayer line. It was the people. Because

faith was so high. I know the secret of it. But

number one, I didn't have a man with a gift.

Oh, yes. I could get water in the well, but I didn't have a bucket.

Number three, on top of that, he had a sign in his hand. I should have mentioned that before. And that sign was the food that we all ran for.

And I told you, I'm not smart. I was sitting there backslidden. The backslidden elect child has more on the ball than the smartest non -elect who isn't backslidden. I never slid in the first place.

And I said, just a minute, why is the sign in his hand that the voice has to tell him where the cancer is? And who needs to know that the cancer, the voice has to tell you where it is? Let the voice tell you what it is and where it is. I was 100 % in the ball. Because writing these tapes, he said, that was the fool of the people. So everybody began to have sensations and smells and deviations and frustrations and heaven knows what. And

applause and didn't know it.

he began discerning.

Incredible. All these incredible unknown ministries, not known previously, they had to be admitted that William Branham had something no one else had. On

one tape he tells you. On another he said, why don't you let the man carry the ball that's got it? Why don't you run interference for him instead of against him?

How do I get to stand up? It's very complimentary. And you hear a great man of God like William Branham say, Brother Vale, you're the only man. In

the name of God, why wouldn't you set him, Paul? Where do you think you stood?

Have you no sense of humility? Isn't

there something in man's heart to recognize greatness? We

hear the songs about the rolling thunder and the majesty of God. It's all going to be destroyed. Let

it be in nature. A

man came back from Africa, former business manager. He preached to Brother Branham. The

people know that it was his ministry that made Brother Branham. They

knew that Brother Branham had something no one else had. But this was not an asset to gaining the knowledge of who he was. The reason was that others sprung up with other gifts and ministries that began to manifest the healings that the prophet had promised. If you only knew who I am, you'd all be healed. Then who needed that now? We can go elsewhere. We can go to Brother Roberts. We can go to Brother Osborne. We can go to Jaggers. We can go to Paul Kane. They're not running these men down. I'm just telling you means you mean. We can go to literally dozens, if not hundreds. If we don't find America, we can go to Canada, find them in Europe, find them in Mexico, find them down in South America. There's the Hickses, there's the Eriksons, there's the McKays, there's any number. So why would we come and ask, who are you anyway? We're not particularly interested.

You're simply a phenomenon of some description. But beyond that, what is there to know? Healing was before us as a part of the atonement, and a very different kind of a man, that we call the prophet, put himself right on the record. that a certain knowledge of him, that's the man, would activate the efficacy of Calvary's procurement of healing from sickness. They

say that's blasphemy.

Well, they say, I don't know if Jesus sent me. Jesus sends a lot of people. It's

a big person. He knew. That's

what the prophet said. An outflowing of grace and mercy was lying in a certain revelation that could be had. And that revelation was about a man. Who is he? We have to know. One

person ever came and said, Brother Branham, he openly declared, That there was something about you. That if we only knew it, there would be no way that we could not get healed. I want to know that because I want to be healed. Could

a person go to Brother Bran and say that? Based on what he said you could.

Or what he said. A prophet had to be pretty careful what he said.

I want us to be real careful to see something here. The challenge that Brother Bran put before us was not an obscure beam of light that flashed past us. Not to be emphasized over and over again. And with the idea... that if you miss that challenge, which I only know of in two places, forget it. Forget it. There was something special in two or three meetings. No way is that the truth. It was not a one -time or a two -time or a few -time challenge. Time after time after time after time after time under the anointing. Dispute what source the anointing came from if you wanted the time after time under that anointing. Hundreds of times he said, do you believe me to be God's prophet? Hundreds

of times. Under the anointing. He

said, do you believe me to be God's prophet? If you only knew me to be God's prophet. Not in no way. Not just a prophet in the economy of God. That could be anybody. But God's own prophet. God's own prophet. That is different.

Not a prophet of God.

Like Jesus one day said, I'm the son of God. And according to the original extended Greek, he was saying, I am a son of God in a manner that nobody else is a son of God. And that's exactly what Brother Branham was saying. I am a prophet in a manner which nobody else is a prophet.

That's exactly what he was

saying. Well, you're just revealing. Exactly. How

arises this thought? When

one person, whoever thought having his own prophet in the hour of their resurrection,

buried in the

Bible for a prophet. the day of the Lord. See,

they can't put it together. The mishandling or the misplacing or the misinterpretation of scripture is death. They

could not put it together. And that is that the day of the Lord encompasses the resurrection, the wedding supper, the coming back.

Watch now, he asked, you believe me to be God's prophet? If he only knew who put

them together. Recall the scores are hundreds of times under discernment that he spoke to those in the prayer line, those seeking healing. And he asked you. You mean me to be God's prophet? That happened in Macon, Georgia. In some place else. My mind goes back to Jack Palmer. Jack Palmer sat there with the condition that's just destroying him. He had a stomach problem. He looked up and he saw Jack Palmer. You mean me to be God's prophet? He said, you used to. You still do. You're healed. And he was saying,

only God could speak your prophet. You

could no more take solid food than nothing. He said, go on, eat all the hamburgers you want. Greasy, rotten. Then

he had the nerve to talk about the African. Eat rotten meat in the jungle and get by with it. We can't.

kind of a joke thrown at her, but that is the truth. The religion system was worked out like ours. Say to that boy, go on. He said to Jack, you mean the gospel? He said, sure. He used to. Sure he did. Listen

carefully and get the trust of this message. People admitted that he was a prophet. Even the more versatile and talented and gifted one than all the others. For number one, he had, thus said the Lord. Number two, he had a

gift to healing. He saw visions. He could even pattern after Joseph and Daniel. who could interpret dreams and recall dreams that were lost and then tell them exactly what it was. I saw that happen, especially with the dream that the man remembered but didn't remember.

He had a sign in his hand. He caused all these to run out. Number six, he could produce miracles in a physical realm. Remember the girl who was lying there with appendicitis and they moved her into rupture. He said, you have faith. He said, you've got all the faith in the world. He said, you've got all the faith in the world and you're lying here dying. But he said, well, you breathe now if I make the chandelier curve go clockwise and then anticlockwise. counterclockwise, she said, his heart shattered. You

know the same man had power to reach in his pocket and told him to do 25, 50 cents, whatever he wanted. How

did you sit all day long and pull out quarters on your pocket? So

that's got to be the devil. Well, I'm glad you worship the devil. If that's got to be the devil, why don't you just leave it in there? Seems you know a lot about him. Pull out quarters on your pocket. I'll tell you how long you pull out quarters, devil or no devil, as long as you've got quarters. That's the extent of your ministry, right? Not meaning that personal chastity. That

mirrors around the physical. Number seven, it was documented by scientific photography that a light did appear to him exactly as he said it did. Number eight, he could even make a challenge. He said, I challenge you, bring me your worst case, I guarantee you. And it was hidden in the child's ear near the Mexican border. Oh yes, he was a prophet and quite unusual. And on top of it all, he claimed creatorial acts like Moses in his own ministry. He said two times at least. squirrels were created and i told you that was a bit of a stumbling block to me the one day i realized he had the first meeting with me down in florida how that the microphone cord like this cord here made three turns was wrapped around him then two complete times in one hand and i stood there and i thought oh god the exact thing billy paul said don't let it happen because daddy hates those cords on the microphone and i stood there and i thought well maybe a little pole let's get it out of the way and i pulled and fell right around his ankles now you know the law of the fulcrum

You know, in Italian boxing, you've

got to have one foot balancing the other. You've got to stand in such a way that you'll be thrown out of bounds. I said, oh, my Lord, I'll one step and whine egos. And I was not sweating blood because I didn't have any blood to sweat. I don't know what I was doing. I looked there with my eyes riveted, and suddenly the chorus,

the same as swirls. They

said, well, Brother Bailey, you could have blinked your eye. How fast could he have been?

Oh,

understand, something has gone on in our day, brother. There's going to be a condemnation of this earth, destruction of the chapter of the earth. And a bride to get out of here. Yes, sir, like the Bible says, be careful how you say it.

But to them he most certainly the kind of prophet that his preaching inferred that he was. They knew all these things, but they could not believe that he was the prophet he inferred that he was from Scripture. All the while disclaiming that he never called himself a prophet. He was the people that did it. They could not understand it. But what was he saying? Look, you called me a prophet. And you all know exactly the extent of my ministry. So if I am a prophet according to you, can you see what you're actually making me based on the reason you call me a prophet? You're

a prophet. And all they could think was the man could see visions. The man could tell things. He could prophesy. It came to pass. But here was an entire whole ministry before the people. A tremendous ministry. So when they made him a prophet, what kind of a prophet in the light of what he produced? Now it's ABC. You've got a Guernsey County. You've got a Holstein County. Now, the Guernsey will out -produce the Holstein when it comes to buttered fat, and the Holstein will out -produce the Guernsey when it comes to milk. It all depends what you want, but a Guernsey is not a Holstein. See,

there's not a Clydesdale, that's a horse.

There's not a Shropshire, because that's a lamb, right, a sheep. I forget about the hogs, because I kind of forget how that is. I forget about that, because I plumb forgot all some of those names I used to know about. Some kind of a black one, a red one, I don't know. But you just see, there's prophets and prophets.

And people don't want to believe that. That's the way nature is. Everything runs in comedy. They say, well, what do you mean a prophet's prophet? No, a prophet is not just a prophet. One day Paul said to the Corinthian church, any man that thinks himself to be a prophet, he had better admit that what I say is a commandment. So there's prophets and prophets. And Jesus one day said, all great prophets, Moses, all this, but not greater. There's great prophets. Certain

attachments here and certain attachments there. And there are certain reasons here and there are certain reasons there. And there are certain times here and there are certain times there. And prophets are not all prophets. No, they're all prophets. Just like kittens. rockings and birds robert's

sparrows because

of the car so what do we do if you don't have a lot so you see there's birds and we segregated on the second people don't let your mind goes to the subject of your logical buying short and the profit you're making the kind of property she inferred what he said look you people you call me a prophet you all know exactly extended the restaurant he was right so

if i have a proper according to you can you see what you're actually based on the reason you call me probably look at the Bible with me let's study together and place me as to what kind of a prophet I am and then see what such a prophet say

you call me a prophet and I've demonstrated you now let's go to the Bible and find if there is such a prophet that contains these elements for a certain predestinated hour and that's exactly the truth when would that profit appear I'm here what's going on all right we previously stated that if anybody knew who John the Baptist was. It had to be John the Baptist himself. The same goes for Jesus. The same goes for Paul. The same goes for Moses. The same goes for Samuel. The same goes for William Brown. And what did he say he was? Categorically, he said that he was God's prophet. That unequivocally is Malachi 4, 5, and 6. We're

going to settle the question. We're going to want us to know. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest they come and smite me with a curse. He tells you right there a ministry by Elijah the prophet would be upon this earth at the time of the day of the Lord, the integration. And that day of the Lord, and except for that prophet, there would not be anybody saved. In

other words, the day of the Lord would be completely fatal. The promise of immortality is set forth by the Apostle Paul. In 1 Thessalonians 4 and 16, could not.

As set forth in 1 Corinthians 15, could not come to pass. There would be no way. Every single person would have to die and then be raised.

The scripture would be fulfilled, however, that says, it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment. It

could not be fulfilled, it said, way back in the garden, lest he put forth his hand and take of the tree of life and live forever.

God had to restore that condition. living right in this hour. And this is the hour that people are going to do. They'll stretch forth their hand and the Lord starts with, who are you anyway man that stands before me?

Answer to something. Tell me about yourself.

Now, we read it. Notice in verse 5. I will send you Elijah the prophet. God's own prophet.

Remember they called Elijah man of God? You're

the prophet of God. You're the man of God. Son of man's prophet. Forget the word man in there. Prophet

of God Elijah. And that coming, is going to be the difference between keeping and destruction. And notice in verse 5 places that prophet as God's prophet of the day of the Lord. And to see it rightly, we begin reading in chapter 4, verse 1. For behold, the day cometh that burneth another, and all the proud, be all that do wicked, shall be stubble. The day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, and it will be the root and the branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness rise with healing. in his wings. And the prophet said, that was immortality. If you only knew. It's

too far. You see, it's always carrying it too far. Jesus carried it too far. John carried it too far. Paul carried it too far. Luther carried it too far. That's always the devil's cry, too far, you bet it's too far. Too far for those birds

that rise above the storm and chicken run to the henhouse. You

shall tread upon the wicked, tread down on the wicked, for there'll be ashes on the soles of your feet. I do this, said the Lord of hosts. That's your chant.

almost sir for all is that second always on Greece grace or

I

would destroy see you my which is by prop everybody Jesus paid all all to him I'll said he watched was no who got

a seat some supervision be out of whack

When so many people today have a spirit upon them looking for great big things, that's just too little. William

Branham did the job. I don't need to do it. The job was done. I just need to believe it. He said, right here, I'll send him. He said, I'll take care of it.

The structure stares us right in the face. He said, in life, that's going to take care of it. Notice verse 6 carefully. He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest they come as may through the curse. Let's go to Luke 1 .17. Even Scofield saw this. I didn't know he did. I'm a brother brown said this is a rather bad word days I wouldn't know that except he told me he didn't have red scope he was out.

Let's read about John. Verse

16. Many of the children of Israel shall be turned to the Lord their God. God's very dear. And he shall go before him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. Tell nothing about the children back to the fathers. So he doesn't do it.

Only half. John did one half.

John of Malachi 3 did one half. That's Elijah of Malachi 3. Elijah Malachi 4 does the second half.

Now what is the turning of the hearts? It's simple as ABC. Even the disobedient to the wisdom of the just in order to make ready the prepared people of the Lord. Now disobedient does not mean a willful act. It means those who don't understand. William Branham, who are you? John the Baptist, who are you? What are you doing? What is your purpose? What is this all about? I'm glad you asked. And I'll tell you. And here's what will happen to you. You are going to have your heart of faith turned in the right direction.

That's what Elijah did on Mount Carmel. The Mount Carmel showdown. He said, this is the hour of turning the hearts.

Israel had to be judged because the heart was turned. Look at all he had. A wicked heart. But the minute he softened, God said, hold back. We won't judge today. Watch how he tread softly. I'll put it down the road. They

came when Ahab didn't have any heart. He'd have to repent. Like the Antichrist, the heart turns to a beast. What's to say? The

heart of man has gone worldly -wise.

The harlot has made her bid for her daughters and dropped them.

The ecumenical mood. The charismatic. Even

the most outstanding Christians have fallen for the one world church love.

Love to turn on God. Love to be sweet to your brother. Love to even die in the name of Jesus Christ and turn on God. It's an ecumenical program. I preached about 12 times on love. Maybe finished that. It's still hard to get it across even to my thinking. I preached all those sermons on it. Love isn't what you think it is. It's what God says it is.

I love shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Ghost. It's not some thing that we have of ourselves.

Getting rid of our junk by what he puts in there by his goodness. All right, so they didn't understand. They came and said, what is this all about? Who are you, John? And the elect immediately said, great. John said, he's standing among you. You don't know him. I'll know him. I'll see that dove come down in the flame of fire. It'll sit there and rest upon him. It'll fill him. That's Messiah. They said, great, wonderful. When you get to know him, let us know him too. He said, sure will. That's right. Because all but a few disciples turned toward Jesus Christ. John had some left. See, there's always a mixed multitude. There's always three kinds of believers. Let's not fool ourselves, but let's get this understanding here. Who are you, John? I'm the voice of one crying witness. I'm the one that's going to turn the hearts of the fathers to children. Bring the understanding of the prophets to the sons. Because this is the hour of sonship. It's still the hour of sonship. It's not that God isn't still father. He's still king. He's still judge. He's all of those things. But this is the hour of son. Started right back there. Sure, let's understand these things. That's why he's son of God. He hasn't left that position. But he's still a father. Nobody's going to deny that. Judge, he's all of it. Now, so it is just the same today. What are you doing? I'm turning the hearts of the children to the fathers. Exactly what it is. Now, that's exactly Acts, the third chapter, 1921, which I read to you. It's Matthew 16 and 28. Let's go to that one. We haven't read it. The

verse says, And there be some that shall not taste death, to see the Son of Man come his kingdom. And, of course, after six days, Jesus took them apart. There was a transfiguration. They came down again after seeing Elijah there, Moses there, Jesus there, and the disciples said, why then say this first thing, Elijah must first come? And Jesus said, truly Elijah will first come and restore all things. He didn't say, hey, he's already come, although he said he was in John. So don't bother looking for him. The scribes are entirely wrong. He said, they were talking concerning the kingdom, which they saw as the true kingdom. In its pure state which is glorification. Not this stuff you have. Where trees die, animals die, people get sick, bugs come in and molest you. Robbers break in and feed. No. It's

an immortal kingdom.

All that's been burnt up has come back down to a purified state. Not even germs around. All that stuff is gone that was brought in here. Not in the original. Now he said that's the kingdom. And he said Elijah's going to come before that in order to bring it in. And God himself said, and Christ cannot be off of God because he is God in human form. Elijah must first come and restore. A

category to describe what kind of a prophet Elijah would be. One, without education, without denomination, with a will and a spirit, who denounced the system of traditional theology. He said, just a minute, where did he get that? He said, the ax is laid in the root of all trees. And bam, bam, bam, he cut them all down. He said, you soldiers. He said, you Pharisees, you bunch here, nailed them all down. There wasn't one that got off the hook.

Not one. The prophet would be a prophet of the word. And though he could not add one word to the Bible, he alone could interpret it. Oh, listen, that cooked him right there. The prophet said the very truth. He said originally a prophet meant revealing a word. Of course it meant to reveal the word because he got the word and then he revealed it. Had to know the things. Let's go to 2 Peter and just take a look at it. Let's find out. They're not going to believe this. People like you need to believe this.

Peter speaking in the first chapter of 2 Peter. And he talks about the excellent voice and the excellent glory. And he said in verse 18, In this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mountain. We have a more sure word of prophecy. The word of prophecy means more sure. More sure than what? More sure than the vision.

Something greater. You say, Brother Van, if I had just been at that mountain transfiguration. Well, go ahead. Be my guest. I'm going to miss you. I'm going to pluck your coattail and bacon and fawn on you. and kisses you, oh, please don't go, please don't go. There's something greater. If you're convinced that that back there was greater, then you go there. Think

of it as a good thing. He said, this is sure. Where unto you do well to take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, it's going to be awfully dark when this really takes place. They just saw a preview. The

computer's not even there yet. He's still someplace pretty well in the same kind of category where the man is. He's in the first age group. Now, in this dark, dark age, which is Laodicea, a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts, turning the hearts to the fathers. Knowing this first. This is the big thing. This is the primary principle. That no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God's faith, as it moved by the Holy Ghost. And he tells you right there, there's a prophet connected with this. Or maybe the true revelation. Now,

how are you going to make it with a true revelation? How did they get to Jesus without John? See, in the mind of people, they can always go back and criticize the Jew. And I say the Jew was 10 million miles ahead of this generation. They

had it all over us.

But this nation is finished. You watch and see. This nation is done gone. She's blown. It really has. So there you are. What is this Peter saying? He's telling you about Malachi 4 and 6 based on Luke 1 17. There will come a man who will tell you all about this. About what? When it happened, he got caught up in a rapture. The Lord carried him up to the Mount of Transfiguration and there they had a vision. But reality is a billion miles ahead of vision. People,

when they die, but the people in this vision will not die because

there'll be a prophet. Always people say, why does God have to have a prophet? Because that's what God wants and what God wants, God gets. Oh, they can sing the song when Nola wants, Nola gets it. Everybody's happy to do this. going to get it. You're going to get it. No, they're

so smart. I'm not sure

like me, or any preacher, you said, I'm just going to stop God. I can say anything I want. There's anything

they want about this, and they're not going to stop it. Because the next verse said, as there were false prophets, letting you know right after this comes the false prophet. And there cannot be false unless there is truth. Brother Closter, that's a beautiful last sentence. Oh,

yes. This is what this man does. He turns the hearts back.

Brother Brandon said, rapture in faith. You see how you got rapture in faith? because you know who the prophet is, what he is, what he's doing, what he's done, what it's all about. And if you know that, well, brother, I'm going to help you. Please, when you do let me know how you do it, I'll be so anxious.

That's what Herod said. He said, when you worship, come back and I'll worship with you. Paul said, foxy, loxy. The

word is stupid. Number three, they hated him for he believed in one God. Baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

revelation of the sovereignty of grace. For he believed in foreknowledge and election and predestination and said, you'll really be sovereign when you realize that God knew how many fleas there'd be and how many times they'd bat their eyes and how many it would take to make a pound of the temple. And you say, oh, horrors, I cannot believe that God would. No, you don't believe God at all, period. You just believe

in sovereignty. You've got some imagination of your own. You've got some system you've got worked up. You're

a theologian, but not a Savior God. For

a long time, my theology always went to the fact, say, hey, God has two things, knowledge and power. How can you foreknow a thing unless you've got power to do it? That is true in the case. Then I got to thinking, how much more wonderful to know a God who wouldn't use his power, but still knew anyway.

See, I don't know that it works that way exactly. I'd be confused. I couldn't tell you. But I can tell you one thing. God knows, and I don't have to know, as long as I know that God knows. If God knows, my name is on the book. And I believe that. And my knowledge is from what I know, from what is in Scripture, and what I see as an indicated prophet, because that's what... The minister William Brown was all about was vindication to speak for already gone. And I know that I'm right. He revealed the true baptism with the Holy Ghost and put the gifts in order. Number five, he revealed the seven seals and therein brought to light all the mysteries of the word.

Using Revelation 10, 1 to 7, where God himself comes down as his own great messenger in the pillar of fire and the prophet. Revelation 10 to 7 is Malachi 4.

He revealed them all. Well, people want to say, well, the seventh seal isn't open. How come he said it was? The only part that's not open is that coming that's in the, we're going to meet him in the air, because that is the coming. It's our going, too. And to prove he was able to do this, which he did, he used a vindicated ministry based on Deuteronomy 18 and Numbers 12, category 7. And then with all of this, he established and emphasized the truth of Hebrews 1 and 1, that God always did use prophets and always will use prophets as long as his plan of redemption goes on.

two men themselves and with that same spirit ministry upon them. And when this began to be fixed in the minds of the people that the prophet of God was God to the people, he let it be known that God was his own prophet and that he used the man. And that man through the Holy Spirit ministry was God in human flesh. God in human flesh.

You heard what I said. Where a man stands up, he said, when you see God descend from heavens, standing before groups of men and declare himself as ever he did. That's exactly what he said. You understand that God in human form and in human flesh, when that man stands before groups of men and say, or in groups of anybody, publicly declares that which only God himself could say, because the words of man will not do that, that is God in human flesh. It's

very confusing because Brother Brennan used Signature. He revealed Luke 17 and 30 and explained his part in it. They said, Brother Branham, somebody said you're the son of man. I thought the pillar of fire is the son of man. He said, I am not he. The pillar of fire is not he. I'm just the son of a man. He said it's in the form of the Holy Spirit. And he said the son of man. He said the prophet is not the son of man. He reveals the son of man. He made it abundantly clear that all this gave him by vindication an infallible revelation. And that revelation was not a new patch on an old garment, but a new message, which was the word of promise. For this hour it may manifest.

That's a mouthful of the truth. What is the message? It's the word of promise for this. He

made it clear that he had the right of an infallible revelation, and we have a right to believe an infallible revelation. What he said, understand what he said. We know that our

hearts have been turned. Now, brother, sister, if you're not going to the agony of a turned heart, I just thought it was boring. Because I want to tell you this. We talk all we want about the Holy Spirit purging out all the drops out of our hearts. You're getting rid of all the phony putting in all over you. But I'm going to tell you the big battle, as Brother Brandon said, was right in the mind. Get rid

of all that old doctrine. Don't try to understand the prophet in a glare. Understand him in a light, which is a new message. As Brother Brandon said, there's no such thing as a true healing revival unless a message follows it. And he said, if it's the same tired old message, he said, it's not a true healing revival, he said, because God does not belabor putting something over you already got. Why would he come in and say, hey, you people, I want to give you a pound of apples. Everybody's already got a pound of apples. He won't work. It's just as simple as ABC. It won't work. And just before he left us, he brought exactly what we had to have, the truth of the rapture, the truth of the appearing. What's the appearing? Everybody believes in the appearing as fundamental. The rapture is not. It precedes the rapture. It's the going away and embraces the second coming. He comes down immortal. And the spirit that's amongst us becomes incarnated at that wedding supper. We've crowned him king of kings and lord of lords. And the tribulation has set in for three and a half years. And we come back and take over again. Let

me start closing off by running down. I hope I can get finished very quickly now. So there it is. Who is William Brown? I haven't begun to really cover you, but that's a 250 -page book.

It is evident he was Elijah which was to come, which was the prophet of God, which was vindicated by God himself to introduce the church. 2. And make known Ephesians 1 .17, which is the spirit of revelation and the knowledge of him. It

is the truth of Matthew 12, the one form of the spirit, which are the Gentiles, to do exactly what he did in the flesh when he was here in the spirit, what he did when he was here in the flesh. And he is the voice of revelation of 10 and 1, as stated in Revelation 10 and 7. He's the one that stood by. And he is the same one that Paul spoke of in 1 Thessalonians 4 .16. He is the voice for the Lord himself shall descend him with the voice. And it's known in the Greek it does not say it is the voice of the one that descended.

To be responsible for the blood and life of the bride as her teacher that she does not fall into the antichrist trap. He fulfills 2 Thessalonians 2. We're in it says in verse 10. and with all deceivableness and of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be the one that brings the truth. For this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they might be damned, who believe not the truth, but that pleasure in unrighteousness. And that is what the unrighteousness of Cain, that offered and sacrificed and worshipped God, under a wrong spirit and a wrong revelation. But we are bound to give thanks always to God through brethren beloved of the Lord. because God had from the beginning chosen you to sanctification or rather salvation through sanctifying spirit and believe the truth render you are called by our gospel. And

Paul's day was Paul's gospel. Moses' day was Moses' law. And this hour, do what you want with it. I cannot ban any words in full with people. Just got to lay it out there as it is. Brother Branham has gone on. He like John decreased, he said that he would. But the one that appeared in the positive in Revelation 10 to join time and eternity is here. as the head of the church that Jesus Christ himself, and to raise the dead, as the prophet said so. That same spirit in our midst will take us to the wedding supper, and he will be incarnated there to bring us back to earth and reign and rule with him a thousand years. I'm going to close now with reading, but I always enjoy reading from the back of my Bible. They're written in here. Folks, they're in here from End Time Evangelism and the Anointed Ones of the End Times. See, same thing today when you see his work. Now we have already seen the witnessing, the appearing of the Lord. Remember, appearing and coming are two different words, to appear and then to come. Now is appearing. He's already appeared in these last days. Right here with us in the last few years. Now it's a sign of his coming. He's appearing in his church in the form of the Holy Spirit, showing his heat. Because people cannot do these things that you see the Holy Spirit doing. So that's appearing of the Lord. Now remember, it's spoken in both places, appearing and coming. So he's telling you that neither he nor any of the others around him can do what he's talking about. And he's talking about that appearing right there, right under Ben's head, under the clouds.

Now remember, he said that when Moses went down to Egypt, God did not appear just in signs and wonders. He literally appeared in a pillar of fire. He

categorically told us what was in here, in that pillar of fire, was three times in history, Moses, Paul, who you

can't deny.

Scientifically proven. Scientifically proven. Now listen to what he says here. Now you, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this tape, you might have thought today I was trying to say that about myself being... preaching this message I have no more to do with it than nothing no more than just the voice first Thessalonians 4 and my voice even against the better judgment I want to be a trapper just skin scum and coons and things but it's the will of my father that I declare to do see where this man is I'm determined to do it I wasn't the one that appeared down on the river I was standing there when he appeared did he or did he not I'm not the one that performs these things and foretells these things that happens at Purgatory I'm only one that's near when he does it But you see, I'm not the son of man. Peter the fire's not the son of man. It's in the form of the Holy Spirit. God manifests in flesh just the same. Because the words of man won't do with those words. Those words come to pass. See what was going on here? God and his prophet. The prophet and his God. Like I said years ago, God, prophet, prophet, God.

I wasn't the one. It wasn't what I knew. It was just what I surrendered myself to. He spoke through. It isn't I. It wasn't the seventh messenger. Oh, no. It was a manifestation of the Son of Man.

That's the manifestation. What was said, proving it was, by coming to pass. There's your manifestation. Son of Man, the days returned again. The prophet revealed. I am not he. Pillar of fire is not he. It's in the form of the Holy Spirit. Watch how he's moving. It wasn't the messenger, his message. It was the mystery that God unfolded. That's Revelation 10. It's not a man, it's God. He's just using a man. The messenger was not the Son of Man. He was the messenger from the Son of Man. He's a prophet. The Son of Man is Christ. He's the one you're feeding on. You're not feeding on a man. A man, his words will fail, but notice Brother Brand's words never fail. So they weren't his words. You're feeding on the unfailing body word of the Son of Man. You're feeding on that which gives you life, and in this case, is immortality. What more does a person want? You say, well, the thing is, Brother Bale, I do think that's very nice, and we certainly appreciate you and John in the prophecy on God and God Jesus. I submit to you, my brother and sister, you wouldn't know Jesus if you met him tomorrow morning in your porridge, as the old Scots say in English. I'm

sorry about that, because

I'm talking about vindication. I'm not talking about smarts. I'm not talking about what you might think you know, what I might think I know. I'm talking about what came to his document, his know. Not strictly anecdotal or little testimony, but it's true. John said John said this is not we're not all based to to what John said in his first epistle there and I'm not going to read the third chapter is the first part of the first that which was from the beginning which we have heard which your eyes have seen which we have looked upon our hands and handled the word of life for the life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father is manifest unto us you need to tell me you haven't seen it handle

the man in flesh because he's not here in flesh so

the prophet could say we've had more success with his ministry In my life.

So that's boasting. That's not putting exactly brilliant.

So there's a picture we have tonight from this sister. She said, if you only knew. You know what I do? Sure.

Brother Bill, could you have not mistaken and oversimplified it? I'm

not going to say anything. What

I said tonight was true. We

did not know.

Because we were too anxious.

Something we wanted to hear. To get what we wanted. Thinking, if we heard that, we would get what we wanted. Then having missed what we should have heard. The

immortality. But we won't recover. The mass healing. except for a rather granite said when that's the spirit of the church that love this here as it were on the show I

love that recognizes every single person here or tears yes one -day what takes us off this earth take us off this will suffer very fortunate could be you pay the price already it could be you know Christ nobody

knows we're

all good good

friend she's

not that she can't go, and not that she shouldn't go. I think the hour of the promise, the immortality is here. I hate to see her go. She's a lovely, lovely Christian, and that's a great testimony. At one of her age, she lived on like old John, and

God took her out of the picture. So the question came up, and

whatever prophet had gone, which is literally Malachi, and

as I say, if you don't get healed, that's not the big issue. There's

a land beyond the river, and the shorters. are coming closer to it, to us, rather than we going closer to it. In some cases, it may be we are nearing the shore. In other cases, it's shoreline. I trust for every one of you sitting here tonight, it's the shore that is nearing you, because

you know, you

know the hour, Elijah, but better than all, you know the Lord.

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you tonight for grace and mercy extended to us. God should have brought in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. These things, Lord, are assuredly true. We thank you, Lord, that you gave them to us, and we know better now. trust before because or me some of these things proper shoulders tried to show over his or your eyes or more did over now or you want our hearts may become ours never before partners we are actually being on now because his ministry body word or Jesus father tonight no more than ever how who it is that we must get rid of all unbelief. As the prophet said, all unbelief must go. Father, I don't know concerning what we've gone into tonight is where it should be concerning this. And I don't know my own heart like you know my heart. I know this one thing, Father, that I wouldn't know where to go apart from this message because the warning has already been out to any

further is to go for the lies. So, Father, we cannot do that tonight. It's just, I don't believe we could do it. Somehow, though, we certainly don't have. evidence of what the apostles had back there as far as their lives and ministries and gracious elements of Christian grace as

the prophet said we can say live or die sink or swim there is no place else to go but this because this is it so father tonight we trust by knowing who William Branham really was and is in your sight because

Samuel came up he was still that prophet you know Lord that it

was not sent from God it was God's own prophet God and the prophet we believe Lord that now that he has decreed And left to see that you will increase more and more. And you will increase, Lord, in our lives. We're ripe and mature by being in the presence of the Son. And we know, Lord, also that this maturity may not be according to our thinking. Help us, Father, to get into that we

will know these things that we've not known them hitherto. And thereby grow up as calves in the stall. Truly. And, Lord, not of our own desire to walk on the ashes of the wicked. But in your program, Lord. Because we are not trying to outrighteous you, Lord. or any way our desires to supersede your Lord we are so carnal that we cannot actually that your desires supersede ours and that's what we want we want all these things done away with which are not of you that's where the prophet came from I don't want to just necessarily be where the prophet came from but Lord to follow in those steps and you know what we're saying so Father tonight though there may be some that's here still looking for healing may go on to the kingdom looking for healing know one thing about it Lord and now that we know more than we ever did We have the true healing. That restoration. Turn back. If

your soul let us live. We will not die. We will be changed in the moment. We

are already resurrected.

Rich blessing upon the

table. Lord now at this time. First right after we are washing. I

want someone to kind of watch there. So that when the downstairs is finished. The ones from upstairs can come down and partake with us. I guess Norman you are there to take many times.

Now let's just read the scripture here. for a second. I

will just read a little bit out of here. In 1 Corinthians, as usual, more or less like usual, in verse 23, I read,

his brother's couple jimmy jimmy the bond examiner's up you never really you know when you're going to call me i'm not going to work i'm ever part of the journey of the lord's body tonight seeing the problem you can understand how many people university take this you're taking it under condemnation because they haven't taken the way of escape which is to turn the hearts back See, they think that laying it all upon Jesus is the answer. Let me tell you something. Jesus died 2 ,000 years ago for billions and billions of people because there's 5 billions on the earth right now. How many did he get actually atoned for? You

can talk foolish.

It's whether you received the light, whether you received the spirit. Why don't people get born again? Because they don't thoroughly repent. Well, does that annul Jesus Christ's death? It doesn't annul his death, but it annuls the efficacy of it.

despise Moses law lost the sacrifice despise the light where's the sacrifice wasn't obtained so you see who

believes this message has first of all discerned the body because he knows the body is a body of believers what Elijah the prophet brought in order to turn away the wrath in other words we've all been chanting just chat make

a minute shoot all up shoot everything okay you understand that then that's good now understand is a hard one ever this cause me we can see you everything I said for events you want to be here you know I'm right to

you know all fits in just exactly you don't make mistakes in this work message you need to stay true doesn't mean you're perfect personal come on make mistakes when it comes to lots of things you do lots of things you back but you cannot foul on this word there's no way because the word according to God We've got it, and the devil can't do a thing about it. He can do about anything else. Every ministry, every gift, every grace, everything else, he can mess with. But he cannot handle this word for word. Only a bride can do it. Like I showed you, if you went, hey, where's Rob? Oh, he's a problem, he's a problem. He'd be cutting it right back. Well, now, he's this kind of problem. He'd be the right one. Hogwash. He was the right one. Get in line. Yes, sir, if I tell you what it is, the drummer beats and the army marches. The army doesn't beat.

We judge ourselves. We should not be judged. In other words, enter into a discernment. We'd be fine there. We're a judge. We're chasing the Lord. Now, just a little word before we come. Brother Brandon mentions that this taping of the emblems is symbolic of our union. So

what we're looking at tonight is as the prophet Paul brings out here. This is an individual matter. What I do hasn't got a thing to do with

me. We're talking to the Lord's stuff. To

myself.

to not do it, you've got to do it. The thing is this, if I do it, the shape I'm in, then I've got a problem. I've got a problem just the same.

This is where the Christian faces up. And the big thing, looking at it from what Brother Branham taught me, is the element of the faith, the understanding, a true prophet. Everybody

knows that the body was...

Lord's

Supper tonight represents, as never before, the understanding... individuals the Lord Jesus Christ and then it moves on into the understanding of individuals with you if we walk in the light Christ

cleansing the old love old love people just always want to build they love the things that God said in his word and they want to build and they want to get the end of it but brother sister you can't unless you do God's there is no other foundation which is already Jesus Christ and be careful how you he didn't say what, he said how. See, Cain's trouble was how, not what. He got in the wrong place, because the Bible says he offered right. He didn't abide right. So therefore, it wasn't the what, it was the how. Like invading the gods, no, the what is the how. So much of these things.